"The author must keep his mouth shut..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.”

“Without passions you have no experience whatever.”

“The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.”

“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.”

“As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.”

“Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.”

“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.”

“You give birth to that on which you fix your mind”

“Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.”